Leed GA Exam Guide: A Must-Have for the Leed Green Associate Exam: Comprehensive Study Materials, Sample Questions, Mock Exam, Green Building Leed Certification, and Sust

by Chen, Gang

• ISBN13: 9781432741686
• ISBN10: 1432741683
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-28
• Publisher: Outskirts Pr

Summary

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one of the most important trends of development and it is revolutionizing the construction industry. It has gained tremendous momentum and has a profound impact on our environment.From this book, you will learn how to: 1. Pass the LEED Green Associate Exam.2. Use LEED exam preparation strategies, study methods, tips, suggestions, mnemonics and exam tactics to improve your exam performance.3. Effectively understand, digest and retain your LEED knowledge.4. Understand the process of registering and certifying a building for LEED.5. Understand the scope, main intent, core concepts and strategies, as well as identify the regulations, recognition, and incentives for each major LEED category.6. Identify the strategies for case studies.7. Identify the synergy in case studies.8. Implement the most important LEED related codes and building standards.9. Get points for categories not yet clearly defined by the USGBC.There is NO official USGBC book on the LEED Green Associate Exam. This pocket guide fills in the blanks and demystifies LEED. It uncovers the secrets, codes and jargon for LEED as well as the true meaning of "going green." It provides you with a solid foundation and fundamental framework for LEED. It covers every major aspect of LEED in plain and concise language, and introduces it to ordinary people. This pocket guide is small and easy to carry around. You can read it whenever you have a few extra minutes. It is an indispensable book for ordinary people, developers, brokers, contractors, administrators, architects, landscape architects, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers, interns, drafters, designers and other design professionals.

Author Biography

Gang Chen holds a Master Degree from School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Bachelors Degree from the Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has over 20 years of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of, or participated in, have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register, etc. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction costs, award-winning school design, highly-acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multi-family housing and high-end custom homes, and regional and neighborhood shopping centers.Gang Chen is a LEED AP BD+C, a licensed architect in California and a member of American Institute of Architects (AIA). He is also a bestselling author of "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Architectural Practice Simplified," "Planting Design Illustrated," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture(www.ArchiteG.com)